is the law primarily concerned with justice?

Answer 1

Justice - punishing the man who works ill against his neighbor.

The vast preponderance of laws have not been created in this spirit but are more designed to punish those who... cross a bureaucratically created line or to benefit those who have become a 'favored' class of person.

Answer 2

The Law - meaning rules and regulations, are designed to keep us safe and protected. Justice is getting what you deserve for your actions. Mercy is what is shown when you did something wrong and don't get the punishment you deserve.
In the legal sense of the word, courts are primarily concerned with justice. However, it is human nature (the jury) that measures in a bit or a lot of mercy into their decisions. This is what defense attorneys hope for just in case the prosecution has a really good case - that they can make you feel sorry for the defendant and cut him or her some slack in your decision.

Answer 3

I don't see how "Law and Ethics" can be placed in the same category. In any event, "The law" is primarily concerned with the law. We, the people, chose the "Rule of Law" over principles, (Ethics). We chose to have a government and continue to choose our reps. Justice is decided by the laws currently in place...Which we choose/chose accordingly. By our election preferences, we decide what happens in our state/province. (I am a Canadian). So...I have to say no...The law is primarily concerned with the laws.

Answer 4

Those who make law are primarily concerned with defining justice. Those who enforce law and those who interpret law are primarily concerned with ensuring justice is done according to law.

Answer 5

I wouldn't say primarily since some of it are concerned with making rich people richer. Take that new online gambling law that was passed a few weeks ago. It was never because of the "morality" of gambling. The only reason why it's being outlawed now is because the government has no way of getting people to claim it on their taxes. It's a shame too, since if the government took control of online gambling sites, regulated it, and taxed the crud out of them, they stand to make more money that way.

Answer 6

It's about how much money they can make off of you. If everyone did what the law wanted them to do, the system would crash. I been a Bail Bondsman for 31 years and i know how the courts think. I can't complain because i make a living on all the losers myself. And for all the people that don't believe me, you don't know the system.

Answer 7

It's concerned with justice in the sense of benefiting society as a whole. Sometimes that conflicts with what you think of as justice in the individual sense.

For instance, it's justice that people that murder are prosecuted and jailed. It seems like injustice to jail a father who murders the person who killed his kid.

Answer 8

In theory, yes. In actual fact, no. In criminal courts, prosecutors view their job as obtaining a conviction at all costs and will go to any length, including concealing evidence of the accused's innocence or manufacturing evidence of their guilt; defense attorneys view their job as being to obtain an acquittal at all costs, even if they know their client to be guilty and a danger to society. I civil courts, plaintiff attorneys are looking for the largest award possible and often file cases that they openly admit are utterly without merit in the hopes that their victim will settle out of court simply to get rid of them. Defense attorneys will resort to every legal trick in the book to avoid having their clients assume responsibility for their wrong doing.

Answer 9

yes why do you as?

Answer 10

it should be. but its not soo